I would rather eat at a buffet than go to a fancy pants restaurant any day. I love fresh brewed iced tea with no sugar or lemon. I’m a vegetarian, but I don’t freak out or preach when people eat meat, but it hurts my feelings when people feel like they have to make fun of me for being a vegetarian. No one would ever dream of coming out and saying some of the crap they say to me, if I was simply a Baptist, or a clog dancer or owned land tortoises (all things which are a conscious choice to make the person who does these things to be a better person for their own reasons) I love movies, but I usually don’t like the typical shoot ‘em up, super hero, crude teenaged boy humor type of movies that are always popular in the US. I would rather watch paint dry (and often have, because I love to paint) rather than watch any kind of sports other than figure skating and gymnastics, for which I have a passion. I would rather stay in than go out, but if I’m going to go out, I’d rather go out to dinner than to a party (unless it’s a family potluck, which I love to attend, but not typical drinking parties where there’s a bunch of strangers and loud music) I hate forced social situations, but I don’t mind going up to total strangers and striking up a real conversation, usually over the comice pears at the grocery store, or the hydrangeas at the nursery. I love trains, but I will never fly again, so please don’t go into all the details about how flying is safer than riding in a car or tell me how much I’m missing out by not being able to fly to Africa (I have no desire to go to Africa, but I would love to drive a motorhome to Yosemite or the Grand Canyon). I’m pretty good at organizing stuff, especially other people’s stuff, but I have a little bit of a hoarding problem and have a lot of sentimental attachment to all kinds of things. I can’t stand clutter or a dirty house, but it really doesn’t bother me if I visit someone else’s house that is cluttered or even dirty, as long as I don’t have to spend the night there. I enjoy organizing family parties, and work parties and vacation plans, but I prefer to work alone, because I have found that over the years that if you ask someone to help you (whether it’s to bring a certain dish, or show up at a certain time, or help me to set up or clean up, they’ll usually forget to bring the dish, not show up on time, or be dreadfully lazy, or disorganized that they simply cannot even set a dish on a table and put a spoon in it, so I end up having to do everything myself, anyway). I’m always the person that will come over and help you pack up your stuff and move you to a new aparment. If you need help getting your cat into the cat carrier, I’m your gal. If you need some help filling nail holes in your walls and sanding them and then painting your walls and doing a perfect hard line around your ceiling or where 2 colors come together, I’m your gal. If you need help clearing out the brush and weeds from your back yard, I’m your gal. If you need someone to take a whole bunch of pictures for your project and then have them oganized and at your disposal, I’m your gal. If you need someone to write a heartfelt, long winded, extremely descriptive statement about something I’m your gal. But don’t ask me to Facebook you, or go to a college football game or to eat chicken wings. I’m not that gal.